On The Original Inhabitants Of Bharatavarsa Or India The Dravidians

The work, of which this treatise is the first part, has been written to prove, mainly on philological grounds, the antiquity and expansion of the GaudaDravidian race in India. This first part is devoted to its Dravidian branch. The second part will treat of the Gaudians, and in the third will be considered the conclusions which may be deduced from the two preceding. An appendix will contain the numerous geographical names scattered over India, which indicate the presence of the GaudaDravidian race. In pursuing the ramifications of the Dravidian population throughout the peninsula, the author hopes he has been able to point out the connection existing between several tribes, apparently widely different from each other. He has tried thus to identify the socalled Pariahs of Southern India with the old Dravidian mountaineers and to establish their relationship to the Bhars, Brahuis, Mhars, Mahars, Paharias, Paravari, Paradas and others; all these tribes forming, as it were, the first layer of the ancient Dravidian stratum. In addition to this he trusts he has shown that all such different tribes as the Mallas, Pallas, Pallavas, Balias, Bhillas and others are one and all offshoots of the Dravidian race. Keeping the text in mind this book will serve a good purpose to common readers.